Are these worth anything?

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  1. brian991219

    brian991219 Road Train Member

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    I was cleaning out the garage this weekend and found three older Motorola MaxTrac two-way radios. I asked a friend that does two-way work and he said these are wide band, VHF and very out of date. He suggested I use them as a paper weight or offer them up to some ham or cb mod guys that want to build a custom rig.

    So let me know if they are worth any effort, otherwise they will go back under the bench for another 20 years until they are worth something as a prop when restoring a "90's vintage" cop car or fire truck.

    Sorry for the photos, can't get it to insert the full image on three out of four of them.
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  3. crb

    crb Road Train Member

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    Might as well put them back under the bench.
     
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  4. CW Spook

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    I'm afraid your friend is right. They're not worth much these days. I've got an ex-ISP 120 watt VHF Motorola Syntor and matching UHF vehicular repeater that I've been trying to give away for the past few months with no takers. Twenty years ago there was still a market for old commercial stuff, but today with the glut of cheap Chinese radios and falling prices even on the better quality Japanese gear, there's almost no market for the boat-anchors.
     
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    If you can give me a clear picture of the one you have posted, I need to see the model number. Motorola has a complicated system of model numbers and I have something her that would tell me what is what.
     
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    brian991219 Road Train Member

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    They are left over relics from when I had my towing company. Really should have let them go with the trucks, thought that one day I would set them up for some of our volunteer fire fighters to have in their personal vehicles, then the county went and upgraded our radio system making them useless.

    Thanks for the replies guys.
     
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    Here is the best I can do on all three units, let me know if you can find anything. 20170305_164909.jpg 20170305_164839.jpg 20170305_164742.jpg
     

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    The first one is a 800 mhz trunking radio with 10-25 watts out. Pretty common but for the right person, parts are usable.

    The second one is a 136-174 mhz conventional radio with 30-50 watts out, pretty good for 2 meter work, a lot of these are super dependable and people do actually use them for ham work.

    The third one is a 29.7 - 50mhz radio, 60 watts out, it is also something that people do actually use for 6 meter work.

    That's what I come up with so far.

    How many do you have? three?

    Worth?

    At least $20 each. However it could be more if they work. There is a bunch of people who can program them, repair them and use them out there, just have to find them. I bought one off of ebay for 440 and spent about $125 for it, ready to go. Gave that to my son after it was programmed with all the repeaters in his area.
     
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    Yes, three total. Sold the Kenwood (not pictured) I had to my friend for $200, he is a Kenwood dealer and can move that one pretty easy. He said there would be a market for these three, but not through him. Our local fire department still uses 33.06 up in the mountains, but there is no market among the volunteers as they plan on discontinuing it. The 136-174 is still valid for the automotive services band (we used to have a license for 155 something for towing). Didn't know the other was a trunking radio that could be worth something to the right person.

    Thanks for the info and advice, much appreciated. All three power up but I have no way of testing TX or RX functions, and I do have the microphones for them as well, no external speakers or antenna kits and two of them have mounting brackets.
     
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    Powder Joints Subjective Prognosticator

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    They appear to be Motorola VHF Maxtrac mobile radio mhz modelD43MJA7JA5AK 16 PIN | Business & Industrial 2 channel. I believe these channels may have been narrow banded, radios appear to be from late 80s early 90s. 50 bucks each maybe
     
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